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04/06/12 05:30 PMUpdated 09/06/13 07:02 AM

Today’s edition of quick hits:

* Horrific scene in Virginia: “Two Navy pilots ejected from a fighter jet after dumping loads of fuel to avoid a major explosion Friday, sending their unmanned plane careening into a Virginia Beach apartment complex and engulfing several buildings in flames, officials said.”

* President Obama spoke this afternoon at a White House forum on women and the economy. The electoral implications of events like these, especially given the Republican policy agenda, are not subtle.

* How much progress has there been in Burma of late? This much: “The State Department’s special coordinator for Burma policy, Derek Mitchell, has been chosen to be the first U.S. ambassador to Burma, formally known as Myanmar, since 1990.”